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Onward! 2018
Wed 7 - Thu 8 November 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
co-located with SPLASH 2018
Thu 8 Nov 2018 14:30 - 15:00 at The Loft - Language Design Chair(s): Philipp Haller

Effect handling is a way to structure and scope side-effects which is gaining popularity as an alternative to monads in purely functional programming languages. Languages with support for effect handling allow the programmer to define idioms for state, exception handling, asynchrony, backtracking etc. from within the language. Functional programming languages, however, operate within a closed world assumption, which prohibits certain patterns of polymorphism well-known from object-oriented languages. In this paper we introduce JEff, an object-oriented programming language with native support for effect handling, to provide first answers to the question what it would mean to integrate OO programming with effect handling. We illustrate how user defined effects could benefit from interface polymorphism, and present its runtime semantics and type system.

Thu 8 Nov

Displayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change

13:30 - 15:00
Language DesignOnward! Papers at The Loft
Chair(s): Philipp Haller KTH, Sweden
13:30
30m
Talk
A CAPable distributed programming model
Onward! Papers
Florian Myter Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Christophe Scholliers Universiteit Gent, Belgium, Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel
14:00
30m
Talk
Protecting Chatbots from Toxic Content
Onward! Papers
Guillaume Baudart IBM Research, Julian Dolby IBM Research, Evelyn Duesterwald IBM Research, Martin Hirzel IBM Research, Avraham Shinnar IBM Research
14:30
30m
Talk
JEff: Objects for Effect
Onward! Papers
Pablo Inostroza CWI, Tijs van der Storm CWI & University of Groningen